Hewlett-Packard is expecting resellers will take advantage of its moves into the cloud by either signing up to deliver their own infrastructure services in conjunction with the vendor or by partnering with another dealer in the ecosystem. The vendor has kicked off its Cloud Agile programme with 10

A recent study conducted by CAST used their Application Intelligence Platform to evaluate the structural quality of 365 million lines of code. In this interview with CAST’s chief scientist Dr. Bill Curtis, he discusses the study and what IT decision makers can do about technical debt.

A worldwide reorganisation at Chinese PC vendor Lenovo will see Gianfranco Lanci, former CEO at Acer, crossing the straits of Taiwan to become head ofLenovo's newly-created EMEA operation. Lenovocurrently divvies up the global market into three parts, Mature, Emerging and China, but is now taking a

Cloud specialist Rise has promoted Alex Hilton to the role of managing director after a successful stint building business at the infrastructure player over the last year and a half. Hilton has masterminded an expansion in partner recruitment and been part of the strategic relationship with Ingram

Components and peripherals distributor VIP Computers has unveiled intentions to go after the retail market appointing a head of a team dedicated to gaining share in that space. The distributor has recruited former channel manager at Acer Alicia Shepherd as head of specialist retail. Her CV include

Avaya has parted company with yet another senior executive, losing UK and Ireland channel director Niall Anderson just over a year into the role. Anderson, who joined Avaya from comms firm Global Crossing in late 2010, is heading to Avaya partner G3, where he will take over from Alan Lloyd as group

ICM-owner Phoenix is to merge the business continuity and infrastructureservices house with its own Phoenix IT Services business in a move that will see the ICM brand disappear from the market. It is coming up to 12 months since Phoenix mergedICMwithmidmarket services outfit Servo in a nod to the co

IT in the NHS has had a bad press in recent years as a result of the problems associated with the now defunct £12bn NHS National Programme for IT, but most doctors in England believe IT improves patient care.

The hype and the rush to provide cloud functionality might have led some resellers selling business intelligence to believe that this was the year the technology shifted to delivery via hosted platforms. But the portion of the BI market that will be taken by cloud sales is going to remain under dou

Stepping into Steve Jobs' shoes to become CEO of Apple is never going to be an easy task but Tim Cook might feel more confident with the board showing faith awarding him a one-time stock award worth millions. According to papers filed by the vendor Cook, who took over in August, has been given a st

Cloud computing and virtualization made big waves in 2011, and some of the industry leading vendors shifted strategies in preparation for a mobile workforce and more emphasis on data storage. Find out what stories were most popular with the channel audience.

The government minister for culture, communications and the creative industry has revealed that learning computer skills is something that the public needs to improve on if they are to exploit changes in the digital world. In an interview in The Guardian, Ed Vaizey revealed that understanding how c

In a preliminary fourth quarter earnings statement, Juniper Networks has said it is likely to miss its original quarterly forecast for the three months to 31 December 2011 after a slump in router demand from service providers, which was particularly acute in the US. The firm now expects to make sale

Emulex CEO Jim McCluney has shrugged off the impact of the Thai flood disaster on the firm's supply chain and moved to reassure partners and customers that everything is ticking over as it should be. Speaking as the datacentre networking specialist unveiled its prelininary second quarter numbers to

Dell has kicked off 2012 by using its inaugural European Storage Forum in London to announce a number of enhancements to its Storage Smart partner programme that itsays will simplify the storage marketing and sales process for its resellers. A new sales tool called Storage Master will act as a one-s

Phoenix has said it will look to book "aggressive growth" in the next 12 months in the wake of consolidating its Phoenix IT Services and ICM brands under the Phoenix banner, as revealed yesterday. Speaking to MicroScope, Phoenix sales director John Hall said that the move created a stronge

Resellers are moving to the cloud and showing that the customer base is far wider than just the SME heartlands with public sector and finance verticals both proving to be good hunting grounds for dealers. The second annual survey of the channel and its views on emerging technologies from distributo

Competition between mobile phone chip maker Qualcomm and PC chip maker Intel is set to increase with each announcing plans to move into the other’s market territory at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Education supplier Stone has announced a PC rental scheme aimed at schools struggling with budgets but facing the need to invest in the latest technology. The channel player used the education show BETT as the forum for its Rent-a-PC schem, which offers a three-year rental period with returns, upgr

Dell has revealed more details of its upcoming cloud partner certification,hinting that it may not attach reseller revenue requirements to the badge. At the vendor's inaugural European Storage Forum in London, Dell executive director of global certified partner programme and channel, Bob Skelley, ex

The computer industry is going to have an input into shaping the technology skills that school children pick up in the future as the current teaching programme of ICT gets scrapped. The Education Secretary Michael Gove will announce that it is replacing the existing teaching approach with an 'open

IBM is providing more support to resellers looking to take advantage of social media platforms as interest in those communication platforms continues to grow. Big Blue wants its partners to become social businesses, which it points out involves more than just having a Facebook page and a Twitter ac

WAN optimisation specialist Riverbed has forked out an undisclosed sum for the assets and intellectual property of Expand Networks, which went into receivership in Octoberafter a loan repayment came due that it could not meet. Riverbedstressed ithas not acquired the corporate entity, or any of Expan

Global PC shipments declined in the fourth quarter with mature markets continuing to show weakness and an inability to shake off the effects of the ongoing mixed economic conditions in both Europe and the US. Added to the economic problems Gartner also identified the impact of the Thailand floods on

In this story, SSQ’s Yvette Francino explores how lifecycle virtualization ties in with continuous integration and modern ALM. CIOs and other decision makers will learn what analysts are saying about the next level of virtualization in their organizations.

Computacenter has revealed the UK market continues to be sluggish with revenue declining over the course of its fiscal year by 13%. The channel player revealed the state of its finances for the year ended 31 December 2011 in a trading update that showed that its home market continues to be sluggish

The extent of the cutbacks in schools has been laid bare by research from Stone indicating that 83% expect shavings off the IT budget and a significant number believe this will impact the learning capabilities of children. The findings come as the great and the good of the education market meet in

ZyXEL UKmanaging directorandvice presidentof European channels Lee Marsden is to take on the role of European president following a reshuffle that has seen predeccesor Gordon Yang take on a worldwide function. Marsden will continue toserve as UK boss while a replacement is sought. Meanwhile, Netgear

Microsoft has warned that lower PC shipments, which it blames on the hard disc drive shortage sparked by the Thailand floods, is going to be felt in its Q2 results. The vendor has warned that revenues in its Windows division will be lower than expected a s result of the floods, which had a major im

Regardless of reasons, the gender discrepancy is a problem, and it's obvious to anyone that has attended a Java conference or worked on an open source project that there are very few women in the high paying field of development and computer programming. And there really doesn't seem to be anything the industry is doing about it.

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust (UHNS) has signed a deal for a real-time information system to accurately retrieve patient information and provide a foundation for work on the trust’s work on electronic healthcare records.

BT Engage IT adds Palo Alto to portfolio BT Engage IT sealed a partnership with firewall specialist Palo Alto to provide security options alongside its network and data packages. The BT Business services division said it was reacting to growing customer demandfor greater protection against a rising

The prospects for the enterprise software market remained delicately poised this year with growth expected but only by a whisker. The latest analysis of the enterprise software market from TechMarketView forecasts a 3% growth rate in the market, but once inflation has been taken into consideration

Yorkshire-based Trustmarque is moving into new headquarters after its old digs became too overcrowded. It said the move to new premises would allow it to continue its expansion while offering more space for training up staff. "We currently have several vacancies across the UK and without this m

The UK economy is on the brink of another recession with both manufacturing and services suffering falls in output and business confidence slumping. According to the latest monthly BDO business trends survey there are concerns about output, optimism and employment with warnings that this year is go

Print specialist Brother has selected Insight as a commodity print partner to sell and support its products in the further and highereducation market under the National Educational Printer Agreement (NEPA). The agreement adds to existing deals that Insight has in place with competitors Canon and Kyo

ShoreTel EMEA boss Adrian Hipkiss hasset the unified comms vendor's sights on further expansion into the large enterprise sector and a ramping up of its virtualisation capabilities in 2012. With 30% of its installations currently over 500 seats, and 20% over 1,000, Hipkiss -who joined the vendor lat